Recaps

Shi Jihan left the Shi Family Villa with Zhou Jingcheng after Zhou invited him to eat ice cream at his home. During the drive, they joked and drew playful figures on the car window, arriving with their illustrated boat trip still unfolding.

• Zhou Jingcheng confronted a man who had approached Shi Jihan, and Shi Jihan pulled his jealous boyfriend aside to kiss him.
• Zhou Jingcheng invited Shi Jihan to his home for the ice cream he had saved, and Shi Jihan wondered whether the invitation meant more.
• Shi Zhongye teased Zhou Jingcheng as his brother-in-law, while Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng shared a scarf and left together.
• Shi Zhongye threatened to charge the relatives for dinner and announced absurd air-themed dishes, leaving them protesting.
• Zhou Jingcheng drove Shi Jihan to his home, and Shi Jihan drew comic versions of them on the car window during the trip.

Shi Jihan visited Zhou Jingcheng’s apartment, where they flirted over ice cream and began kissing. They went to the bedroom, but the chapter left what happened next to the readers’ imagination.

• Shi Jihan arrived at Zhou Jingcheng’s apartment and greeted Pizza, then admired Zhou Jingcheng’s collection of miniature outfits and matching dog slippers.
• Zhou Jingcheng showed Shi Jihan the citywide advertisements celebrating his screenplay and offered him mint chocolate ice cream.
• Shi Jihan smeared spilled ice cream from Zhou Jingcheng’s shirt, prompting Zhou Jingcheng to kiss and lick his finger.
• Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan kissed while sharing the ice cream, then went to the bedroom after Shi Jihan insisted they move somewhere else.
• Zhou Jingcheng said they should wash first, and Shi Jihan asked him to help; the lights remained on near midnight.

Shi Jihan woke after spending New Year’s Eve with Zhou Jingcheng and discovered the film Fermented Black Bean had opened to strong ratings, Shi Zhongye had sent him five million yuan, and Shi Bochuan planned to transfer their parents’ shares to him. The chapter ended with Shi Jihan proposing a shift schedule for Zhou Jingcheng’s “little brother” after learning Zhou intended to restock for the night.

• At midnight, Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan welcomed the New Year together amid fireworks, and Zhou teased Shi Jihan about growing older.
• Shi Jihan woke the following evening, checked the crew chat, and collected red packets after learning Fermented Black Bean had opened with an 8.0 rating.
• Shi Zhongye transferred five million yuan to Shi Jihan, who thanked him in the family group chat.
• Shi Bochuan told Shi Jihan he planned to transfer their parents’ shares into his name.
• Zhou Jingcheng visited Shi Jihan and recounted how Shi Jihan had kicked him out of bed that morning.
• When Zhou Jingcheng said he planned to restock for the night, Shi Jihan proposed making a shift schedule for his “little brother.”

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng shopped, teased each other, and learned that the system had activated installment payments and a new plot route involving Zhou Jingcheng’s parents and Zhou Zeyang. Shi Jihan went fishing to win Dad Zhou’s favor, where a young man beside him caught a fish as Dad Zhou watched.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng went shopping, bought snacks and family planning products, and walked past an advertisement for Shi Jihan’s successful movie.
• The system announced that Shi Jihan’s long-term mission had failed, activated installment payments and daily missions, and revealed the plot tasks to win over the Zhou Family parents and support Zhou Zeyang.
• Shi Jihan played with Zero-Zero-Zero’s new volume slider, checked his mission progress, and asked Zhou Jingcheng about Dad Zhou’s hobbies.
• Shi Jihan went fishing to gain Dad Zhou’s favor, and Dad Zhou arrived to find a young man beside him.
• The young man caught a small crucian carp soon after casting, prompting Dad Zhou to wait eagerly for a bite of his own.

Shi Jihan accidentally won Zhou Yanli’s favor by posing as a fishing master, then returned home with a catch and tried to impress Zhou Jingcheng. His attempt to earn a task reward through flirtation ended with a cramp and a kiss, leaving Zhou Jingcheng asking what his under-the-table advances meant.

• Shi Jihan improvised fishing lessons for Zhou Yanli, caught fish with absurd methods, and earned his favor twice.
• Shi Jihan gave Zhou Yanli a fish, and Zhou Yanli left convinced he had met a wonderful person.
• At dinner, Shi Jihan told Zhou Jingcheng that he had caught the fish, while Pizza tried to steal food from the table.
• After receiving a task to make Zhou Jingcheng deeply disappointed, Shi Jihan tried to provoke him by rubbing his foot against him under the table and showing off his flexibility, then got a cramp.
• Zhou Jingcheng massaged Shi Jihan’s calf, kissed him, and asked what Shi Jihan had meant by rubbing against him.

Shi Jihan tried to complete a mission by disappointing Zhou Jingcheng, then teased him with childish antics and spicy candy. Zhou Jingcheng’s annoyance turned into playful affection, and their chaotic daily life continued.

• Shi Jihan dressed in a brown bear mascot costume and danced for Zhou Jingcheng, but ruined the mood by revealing SpongeBob SquarePants long johns, completing his mission.
• Zhou Zeyang saw his brother’s complaint about SpongeBob and learned that Dad Zhou and Ms. Shen had each taken lessons from handsome teachers who looked like Zhou Jingcheng’s boyfriend.
• Zhou Zeyang recognized Dad Zhou’s blurry fishing-master photo as Zhou Jingcheng’s boyfriend, but his parents insisted it showed someone else.
• Zhou Jingcheng refused to speak to Shi Jihan for ten minutes, but Shi Jihan coaxed him with declarations of love and kissed him after they tussled over his phone.
• Zhou Jingcheng accepted a pink candy from Shi Jihan and discovered it contained wasabi, completing Shi Jihan’s mission to make him angry and overheated.

Shi Jihan stayed at Yuyan School after Ms. Shen’s class and ended up face-to-face with Zhou Jingcheng, who had come to meet her homeroom teacher. Shi Jihan and Ms. Shen teamed up to praise her misbehavior, leaving Zhou Jingcheng struggling to get a word in.

• Ms. Shen told Shi Jihan that her homeroom teacher had asked her to call her family in over her classroom antics, and she threatened to drop out.
• Zhou Jingcheng agreed to visit the school and found Ms. Shen sharing her fashion-class creations in the family group chat, including a fishnet vest she planned to make for him.
• Ms. Shen asked Shi Jihan to speak well of her to Zhou Jingcheng, but he initially refused because the system warned him not to reveal himself.
• Zhou Jingcheng arrived and recognized the figure facing away from him, while Ms. Shen introduced Shi Jihan as her teacher and suggested Zhou Jingcheng call him Grandmaster.
• Shi Jihan and Ms. Shen rebuked Zhou Jingcheng for his attitude, then Shi Jihan reframed Ms. Shen’s misdeeds as signs of her talents and kindness.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng revealed their relationship to Ms. Shen, who enthusiastically accepted them and earned more favorability. During their dinner together, they encountered a flamboyant former blind-date match for Zhou Zeyang, whom Zero-Zero-Zero identified as a future threat to the Zhou Family.

• Ms. Shen mistook Shi Jihan for Zhou Jingcheng’s boyfriend, then happily accepted their relationship and asked them to get married.
• Ms. Shen earned enough favorability to complete her acquisition reward, and Zhou Jingcheng escorted her to the homeroom teacher’s office.
• Shi Jihan canceled dinner with Dad Zhou and exchanged messages with him about catching a crucian carp.
• At dinner, Zhou Jingcheng told Ms. Shen that he and Shi Jihan were living together, earning her additional favorability.
• A flamboyant man approached their table, and Zero-Zero-Zero recognized him as Zhou Zeyang’s former blind-date match who would later cause the Zhou Family trouble.

Shi Jihan mocked Showoff Bro at a restaurant, then learned he had become a Shi Group shareholder and helped arrange Zhou Zeyang’s return to work. He later visited Zhou Jingcheng, who explained how to let Malice Point contributors recover before targeting them again.

• Showoff Bro offered Shi Jihan a cake, but Shi Jihan insulted its taste and mocked his manners until Showoff Bro left in anger.
• Ms. Shen ordered Zhou Zeyang to return to Universal Company, and Zhou Jingcheng assigned him company work and training.
• Shi Jihan signed a share transfer agreement to become a Shi Group shareholder, and Shi Zhongye transferred him another million.
• Shi Jihan asked Shi Bochuan to show him photos of their parents, then went to find Zhou Zeyang after learning a board member was stirring up trouble.
• Shi Jihan described how Malice Point contributors recovered after a break, and Zhou Jingcheng taught him to use sustainable harvesting periods.

Shi Jihan completed his task by creating an outrageous proposal for Zhou Zeyang’s business collaboration, and the investors were stunned by its morbid idol merchandise. The proposal left Zhou Zeyang facing Wang Ming’s anger while Zhou Jingcheng encouraged the investors to consider it.

• Zhou Zeyang told Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan that Wang Ming had urged him to seize power and prove himself in the afternoon collaboration.
• Shi Jihan accepted 50,000 yuan from Zhou Zeyang to prepare a proposal, then delivered an outrageous idol merchandise pitch at the meeting.
• Zhou Zeyang presented stage clothes that turned transparent when an idol gained haters, digital memorial portraits for canceled idols, and a subscription-based virtual cemetery.
• The investors were horrified by the proposal, while Shi Jihan defended its potential to keep earning money after an idol’s retirement.
• Zhou Zeyang looked to Zhou Jingcheng for help as Wang Ming glared at him, but Zhou Jingcheng calmly urged the investor to consider the proposal.

Shi Jihan let Zero-Zero-Zero handle a task to ruin Zhou Jingcheng’s reputation, and the system did so by printing a steamy story about Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan for his parents to read. After earning the reward, Shi Jihan received a message from Zhou Jingcheng inviting him upstairs to see a surprise.

• Zhou Jingcheng saw off an investor, while Shi Jihan ordered discounted cakes and spent 648 on a new skin for his cyber husband.
• Zhou Jingcheng told Ms. Shen that Shi Jihan was nourishing his overworked brain with ice cream, and Ms. Shen offered opera tickets that turned out to be for a bel canto cover of “The Most Dazzling Ethnic Style.”
• Shi Jihan bought ice cream and snacks, then received a task to ruin Zhou Jingcheng’s reputation and disappoint his parents.
• Zero-Zero-Zero connected to the office printer and printed a steamy novel featuring Zhou Jingcheng and Shi Jihan, which Dad Zhou read aloud to the family.
• Zhou Jingcheng choked on his coffee as his parents heard the story, and Zero-Zero-Zero completed the task for 20 Malice Points.
• Shi Jihan praised Zero-Zero-Zero, then received Zhou Jingcheng’s message inviting him upstairs to see a surprise.

Shi Jihan went with Zhou Jingcheng to meet his parents, but Dad Zhou recognized him as his fishing master and competed with Ms. Shen to claim his time. The family ended up together at the opera, where Dad Zhou found profound fishing wisdom in a children’s magnetic toy.

• Shi Jihan collapsed in the elevator after Zero-Zero-Zero reminded him that Zhou Jingcheng had read his explicit novel, and Zhou Jingcheng threatened to recite it unless he came to meet his parents.
• Dad Zhou recognized Shi Jihan as his fishing master, while Zhou Jingcheng introduced him as his boyfriend.
• Dad Zhou insisted Shi Jihan go fishing, Ms. Shen wanted to take him to the opera, and Zhou Jingcheng and Zhou Zeyang joined their tug-of-war over him.
• Shi Jihan settled the dispute by proposing they listen to opera and fish at the same time, and the family went to the theater together.
• Shi Jihan gave Dad Zhou a children’s magnetic fishing toy, and Dad Zhou interpreted it as a lesson about attracting fish through the natural Way.

Shi Jihan learned that only two tasks remained before the Main System planned to send him back to his original world, but he told it he wanted to stay with Zhou Jingcheng. After the Main System refused and disappeared, Shi Jihan sought ways to defeat it, ending by asking Xiao Yuan for every statue of a god in his house.

• Zhou Jingcheng reminded Shi Jihan about the ring, and Shi Jihan cursed him for being a sick bastard.
• The Main System issued repeated tasks, announced Shi Jihan was nearing repatriation, and refused to let him remain in the world after unbinding.
• Shi Jihan tried to learn programming to fight the Main System, but fell asleep at his desk before Zhou Jingcheng found him.
• Shi Jihan hired programmers to crack Zero-Zero-Zero's code, but even the experts could not handle it.
• Shi Jihan contacted Xiao Yuan and asked to borrow all the statues of gods in his house so he could worship them.

Shi Jihan told Zhou Jingcheng that his system missions were nearly complete and he would have to return to his own world, prompting them to test whether Zhou Jingcheng could be stored as electronic data. The test worked, and Shi Jihan and Zero-Zero-Zero began experimenting with effects while Zhou Jingcheng remained projected.

• Zhou Jingcheng came home to find Shi Jihan had turned the entryway into a shrine and learned that Shi Jihan had a mission system and would soon have to leave.
• Shi Jihan asked Zero-Zero-Zero whether he could take Zhou Jingcheng back as luggage, and the Main System approved storing him as electronic data.
• After Shi Jihan kissed him, Zhou Jingcheng vanished and appeared as a tiny figure inside a screen; Zero-Zero-Zero then projected his upper body.
• Shi Jihan and Zero-Zero-Zero activated a dance-club effect, making Zhou Jingcheng flash in bright colors.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng dealt with Zero-Zero-Zero’s effects and talked through Shi Jihan’s eventual departure, leaving Zhou Jingcheng anxious about losing him. Over hot pot, Shi Jihan revealed that his current mission was to help Zhou Zeyang replace Zhou Jingcheng.

• Shi Jihan freed Zhou Jingcheng from the electronic effect, and Zhou Jingcheng joked about wanting to mince Lurdan.
• Shi Jihan explained that he could keep refreshing mission worlds after leaving, but Zhou Jingcheng feared he might never see him again.
• Zhou Jingcheng followed Shi Jihan into the bathroom, and their awkward shower turned intimate before they ate takeout hot pot.
• Zhou Jingcheng said he would cancel his business trip so he could cook for Shi Jihan the next day.
• Shi Jihan told Zhou Jingcheng that his mission was to make Zhou Zeyang a reliable successor, win public support for him, and help him take Zhou Jingcheng’s place.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng tried to make Zhou Zeyang look like a capable, ambitious successor at a board meeting, but his staged entrance and improvised presentation turned into a series of blunders. Their next attempt to show his gentle side at the company cafeteria ended with Zhou Zeyang insulting the food, leaving Dad Zhou doubtful that the plan could work.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng dressed Zhou Zeyang in black and coached him to act like a cold, ambitious rival for the CEO position.
• Zhou Zeyang made a dramatic entrance into the board meeting with a blower and a freshly mopped runway, then slipped into a split and slid to Wang Ming's feet.
• Zhou Zeyang read a business presentation full of jargon, then improvised with video game terms that confused the board.
• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng took Zhou Zeyang to the cafeteria to demonstrate his kind personality, but he complained about the portions and mocked the rice porridge.
• Dad Zhou remarked that Zhou Zeyang seemed ready to kiss the food if Zhou Jingcheng did not stop him.

Shi Jihan received his final task: get Zhou Jingcheng’s parents to support Zhou Zeyang taking over, a step that would make the system decide Zhou Jingcheng had lost everything and send Shi Jihan home. Zhou Jingcheng arranged for his family to sign the CEO succession documents, and the task was completed, leaving the system’s final determination pending.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng staged a photo that completed the task to build Zhou Zeyang’s image as a dependable successor.
• The Main System issued Shi Jihan his final task and explained that completing it could end the storyline and force him to return home.
• Shi Jihan worried that Zhou Jingcheng would lose his career and identity if he came with him, but Zhou Jingcheng proposed triggering a game bug by having his parents sign the CEO succession agreement.
• Zhou Jingcheng had Secretary Sun prepare the documents, and his parents and Zhou Zeyang came to the office to sign them.
• Zhou Zeyang signed the succession contract while his parents argued over who should take over, and the system confirmed Shi Jihan had completed the final task.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng decided to visit Shi Jihan’s original world for a day after the Main System failed to send him back. Shi Jihan woke in a university exam room and immediately regretted the trip.

• The Main System’s assessment failed because Zhou Jingcheng’s anchor point had become Shi Jihan, and Zhou Jingcheng said losing Shi Jihan would mean losing everything.
• The Main System arrived, found Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng refusing to separate, and offered Shi Jihan a one-day visit to his original world.
• Shi Jihan agreed to go with Zhou Jingcheng, while the Main System opened a transmission and the two traveled as consciousnesses.
• Shi Jihan woke in a university examination room with a blank Chinese test, and Zhou Jingcheng admitted he could not answer any questions.

Shi Jihan finished his exam using Zhou Jingcheng as a screen for his notes, then returned to his dorm and took Zhou Jingcheng to visit his grandparents’ graves. After introducing Zhou Jingcheng as his boyfriend and sharing his memories, Shi Jihan headed to his old home to sell its furniture and appliances.

• Shi Jihan covered Zhou Jingcheng with excerpts from a classical Chinese text and copied them during the open-book exam, then handed in his paper early.
• Shi Jihan returned to his cramped dorm, packed his belongings into Zero-Zero-Zero, and told Zhou Jingcheng they were going to visit his grandparents.
• Shi Jihan explained his grandparents’ deaths in a car accident and told them he was doing well, while Zhou Jingcheng introduced himself as Shi Jihan’s boyfriend.
• Shi Jihan displayed the Miracle Grave-Grave Package at the cemetery, frightening two visitors who mistook the floating ghost lamps and projections for ghosts.
• Shi Jihan boarded a bus with Zhou Jingcheng and announced they were going to sell the furniture and appliances at his old home.

Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng negotiated with the Main System to return to their world, where they woke from a half-month coma during a fake funeral. After Zero-Zero-Zero unbound, Zhou Jingcheng proposed, and Shi Jihan accepted while asking for a more formal proposal with lots of flowers.

• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng pressured the Main System to send them back and let Zero-Zero-Zero remain with them, promising to help fix its bug.
• The Main System sent them back, and they woke in coffins during a fake funeral after lying unconscious for half a month.
• Shi Jihan and Zhou Jingcheng learned their families had staged the funeral to ward off bad luck, and Shi Zhongye admitted he had been worried about Shi Jihan.
• Zero-Zero-Zero unbound from Shi Jihan and chose to stay, while Zhou Jingcheng asked Shi Jihan to marry him.
• Shi Jihan accepted but asked Zhou Jingcheng to propose formally with lots of flowers, and Zhou Jingcheng promised to propose during their travels.